Citing off-the-record statements by four different publishers, the blog Good E-Reader today announced that Amazon will soon offer EPUB format books on the Kindle platform: Four publishers in the last week have confirmed that Amazon has indeed told them they now have an option to submit eBooks to be listed in the Amazon store in [...]
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It’s the Day Against DRM; does anybody care?
Why isn’t the Day Against DRM a bigger deal among ebook consumers?
Walmart to sell Kindles starting this week
Amazon has announced that Walmart will begin selling 3G Kindles and the ad-subsidized Kindle with Special Offers starting this week. No mention of the Wi-Fi only models that aren’t subsidized, however. Walmart makes the ninth retailer to sell Kindle devices. Check out this Amazon page for the others. [via Amazon's Kindle Post] (Photo: Walmart Stores)
Amazon announces partnership with OverDrive to bring Kindle ebooks to public libraries
Amazon has announced it will release a Kindle compatible format for public libraries later this year — which means you’ll finally be able to check out library ebooks on your Kindle.
Patent lawyer explains rejected Google Books settlement for the rest of us
If you’re in publishing, you probably can already hit all the main points of the Google Book Search settlement story without crib notes, but it can still seem like a complicated mess to outsiders. The website Practical eCommerce asked an attorney who specializes in intellectual property law to explain what’s going on, and I think [...]
24symbols to launch ebook subscription service in June
A Spanish company called 24symbols is beta-testing a new all-you-can-read ebook service set to launch in June, with both free and paid levels. Will readers and publishers buy into it?
Kindle App News changes name to Ereader App News
Although the blog is still focused solely on Kindle active content apps, at least for now, Kindle App News has gotten rid of the trademark in its domain name. (The blog hasn’t changed its header though, as you can see from the attached screen cap.) Be sure to update your bookmark to ereaderappnews.com to stay [...]
Using Amazon Cloud Drive to store ebooks
Does Amazon’s new Cloud Drive online storage service play well with the Kindle? I tested it out on the first day, and the short answer is yes, but for now not very well.
Kindle subscribers to the New York Times can ignore the new paywall
Update 7 April 2011: Barnes & Noble has announced a similar perk for Times subscribers on the Nook and Nook Color. Original post: If you subscribe to the New York Times on your Kindle, you can ignore the new paywall that the newspaper has implemented. Amazon just announced that all Kindle subscribers will have free [...]
Do printed library books really fall apart after 26 uses? (No, they don’t.)
Yeah, I’m still posting about HarperCollins’ new ebook library policy. It’s not just that it’s such a damned greedy, destructive move to make against libraries, the publishing equivalent of clubbing a highly literate seal. It’s that HarperCollins is using this policy change to try to push a 500%+ increase in the frequency with which libraries [...]
HarperCollins tries to justify its new library policy
Josh Marwell, the president of sales at HarperCollins, today published an open letter to librarians and library patrons in an attempt to explain the publisher’s new self-destructing ebook license. He writes that ebooks are such a fast-growing sector of the marketplace that he wants to avoid losing backlist titles to libraries forever, since unlike a [...]
Ebook recap for February 2011
All things considered, February was a dismal month for ebook news. Apple dug a moat around its walled iOS garden, then filled that moat with lava; Rupert Murdoch launched a “daily paper” on the iPad but forgot to put decent content in it; Borders finally kicked the bucket; and HarperCollins punched libraries in the face [...]